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Cultural Perspective On General Education

Posted on:2012-10-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L J YinFull Text:PDF
GTID:2217330368489411Subject:Higher Education
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In the course of development of modern universities, the rise of the industrial revolution and the development of scientism, non-utilitarian utilitarian liberal education have been gradually replaced by professional education, and then developed into professionalism, instrumentalism, people become a knowledge dependency. In the critique of professionalism, professionalism general education first in the United States came into being. Since reform and opening, along with rapid economic and social development, people recognize the dangers of excessive specialization.80 years of the 20th century, the domestic scholars around the cultural quality education and general education started thinking national universities have begun to pay attention to broaden the professional side.Wei ping Chen, Liu Mei Ling published in the "Higher Education" 2 1987 "Hong Kong Chinese University's general education and enlightenment" is the first article of general education as the theme to the research literature. Following this, China has entered a great introduction to general education studies abroad, through the experience of the United States and the introduction of Hong Kong and Taiwan, contributed greatly to China's General Practice. However, previous studies related to general education, basically revolves around what is general education, its philosophical basis for what, how the general education, general education and other issues of effectiveness. Culture foundation of general education culture based, are not caused by a researcher attention. So, this text plans to regard this as the research object. Attempt to perspect and know educating openly in terms of culture, know and educate the root which looks for a kind of deep culture openly, perspect the open deficiency which knows education in order to remedy in terms of culture. Pass and combine the culture development trend of new era, what kind has put forward the need under great background that is globalized to know education openly specifically. In this paper, cultural structure analysis method, and explore the cultural foundation of general education; find the current era of China's Cultural Strategy and General of the contacts. This text is divided into five parts, the first part of the first connotation of the concept of general education to sort out the different general, because this particular cultural perspective, and then the various definitions of cultural expression for discrimination. Second, third and fourth part of the analysis from the perspective of cultural elements, respectively, the underlying values from general education, general education in the way of thinking inherent in support of general education part of the collective unconscious-depth analysis of the three to look through knowledge of education and cultural foundation.The second part of the underlying values of General Education, which advocates the value of the pursuit of general education, personality development, including liberal arts, natural sciences and the humanities facility, the guardian of the basic human values of three parts; General implied in the mindset of the advocates involved in a whole way of thinking, ways of thinking through two aspects; by the Jung's collective unconscious, including the inclusion of this part of the universe, some mind, and cherish the traditional two.The last part is based on the background that is globalized, has analyzed the strategic background of culture in new era, involve it in the face of the pluralistic development trend of culture, different culture needs to talk in order to impel the blending of different culture. And base on the premise that the thought, faith brought in western cultural shock are vast and hazy, on one hand require the promotion of native culture, on the other hand, need to establish the base that basic cultural value is found and settled down and got on with one's work by people. And under the foundation that describe here, what kind angle of cultural construction needs to know the educational problem openly to new era, provide the concrete suggestion.
Keywords/Search Tags:General, Culture, Values, Thinking, Collective unconscious
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